Tour

Last week saw Part One of our Interview with Connor from Kingsland Road! (If you haven’t read it check it out >>> here)

Part Two has even more laughs, what the boys would be doing if they weren’t in a band, Cats and the best of YOUR fan questions.

Once again, check it out and let us know what you think.

– Brumotions: You will soon be heading on a US Tour what are you most looking forward to out there?

Connor:Just going to America, I’m excited to get on a plane, leave and get to the US. Like there’s big burgers there which is cool, going to a couple of theme parks which is going to be awesome oh and I’m hoping I’ll get to go and watch an American football match… but I doubt I will.

– Brumotions: We will be really jealous if you do.

Connor:I know I want to go and watch, but I highly doubt that will happen. We are just really excited to get to a different country. We’ve done gigs in different countries before but not in America, we’ve had some American fans from right at the start so they have been waiting for a couple of years for us to go out there, so it will be really nice for us to see them and see how they feel about our music and see if we can gain some new fans whilst we are out there.

– Brumotions: Have you ever had any interesting fan experiences?

Connor: Uhm yes, let me try and think… we’ve had bra’s and different things thrown on stage, things I can’t say. We get given some decent presents too and some funny ones, someone got me a mirror with Leonardo DiCaprio’s face on it and someone got Josh a ken doll but with his face on it and people have waited in our flat to give us pictures and stuff, yeah they have managed to get their way into our flat and things like that.

– Brumotions: We aren’t quite sure if that’s cute or a little scary.

Connor: It was a little scary actually. It’s really hard to remember things that have happened, funny things always happen to us but we forget when we need to tell them.

– Brumotions: If you weren’t in Kingsland Road what would you be doing?

Connor: I always wanted to be in the Marines when I was a kid, so that’s probably what I’d be doing right now, I think Matt…Well Matt was a builder so he’d probably still be laying bricks and stuff. Josh, this is actually what josh would want to be doing, he’d probably be like, I dunno, a lifeguard, let’s just say a lifeguard and Thompson would work in a kennels…cause he likes dogs.

– Brumotions: Is that just a guess or have they actually told you this?

Connor:Nahhh that’s what they’ve told me.

– Brumotions: Alright then, we believe you.

Connor:Yeah you’ve got to believe me.

– Brumotions: Are there any advice or motto’s that you live by?

Connor: I’ve got cool sayings which I’ve heard people say that I like, but nothing that I kind of live by there’s things that as a band we tell people if they ask us – just not to give up and things like that and if someone tells you that you can’t do it, prove them wrong kind of thing, that’s probably the nicest thing being told you can’t do something and proving them wrong and being successful kind of knowing yourself and having the faith in yourself to do it and you do and that’s really nice a good feeling… Josh is the man for this, josh has like this app on his phone and everyday he reads us out like this little quote, it’s like quote of the day, he’s very sad like that and likes that kind of thing. It’s like horoscopes but it’s like a saying from like a president in the 60’s or something.

Fan Questions:

– Brumotions: So we have a couple of questions from your Klanders.

Connor: Go on then, hit me.

– Brumotions: @Elliee_Rixton wants to know who you would love to do a collaboration with?

Connor:I’m really obsessed with a couple of bands at the minute, Royal Blood and Catfish and the Bottlemen they would be sick to collaborate with, Adam Levine would be quite cool… Thompson would say Bruno Mars cause he’s obsessed with him …I think collaborating with Eminem would be cool as well, like a rapper or Tinie Tempah that would be cool.

– Brumotions: @MollieFinch1234 wants to know if you could date any one of the lads in Kingsland, who would it be and why … you can pick yourself we won’t judge.

Connor:The other lads annoy me sometimes and I don’t annoy myself, so I feel like that’s my best bet really, I’d never argue with myself, but I would argue with the other boys. So I’m going to say I’d date myself.

– Brumotions: Would you not find it boring being exactly the same?

Connor:But I suppose that’s what’s good, you have to be similar to be compatible with someone, we’d be the perfect couple we’d get married.

– Brumotions: @JoshZareIsMyMan asked if you could be any other celebrity for the day who would you be and why?

Connor: Someone interesting who’d have a really interesting day, I’d want to be somebody like Cristiano Ronaldo because that would be cool to see how good he is at football, like actually how good he is.

– Brumotions: We wonder whether that would change his talent if it was you that was playing football.

Connor:Nah I’d be better … no I wouldn’t really, that’s why I’d want to be him to see how amazing he actually is … and he’s very very very rich so that would be cool to see his house and stuff.

– Brumotions: @BethRitchiexxx wants to know what are you looking forward to most on tour.

Connor: Singing our new songs that’s going to be amazing and our London tour date for reasons I can’t say that will be really cool and to see all of our fans.

– Brumotions: @mattcahilltho_ wants to know if you were a superhero, what power would you have and what would your name be?

Connor:I’d be amazing at cleaning up and I’d be called Consuela, which is a little family guy joke if you get it… I’d usually say something like healing the wounded but then the lads would laugh at me for being really cringy so I’ve had to change my answer recently.

– Brumotions: And the last question from the Brumoters is, if you could be any animal what would you be and why.

Connor:Uhm a penguin cause they are really cool and they can swim in the ice water without getting cold and they are really cute as well, either that or a dog, I wouldn’t want to be a cat cause they are mean, I don’t like cats.

– Brumotions: But you could just change the way of cats… you could be a nice cat.

Connor:I don’t think they exist.

– Brumotions: You could be the first one…

Connor:I could be… no, cats are different you can’t breed like a nice cat, i’d have to breed with another nice cat and me being the only nice cat wouldn’t create a nice cat if you know what I mean.

– Brumotions: It sounds like you’ve put a lot of thought into that actually.

Connor:I have, its true though isn’t it, if I was the first nice cat, I couldn’t then breed with a horrible cat because it would be like, it wouldn’t be horrible or it wouldn’t be nice, it would be an average.

– Brumotions: Yeah make an average cat.

Connor:Yeah an average cat, who’d want an average cat that would be boring.

– Brumotions: Before we finish, if you have any last words for the fans that would be awesome.

Connor:Come and watch our tour, buy our album, let’s get in the charts cause I said that if we do I’ll run down my street naked… there we go last words.

So there you have it!

You guys heard Connor – If ‘We Are The Young’ charts he’ll run down his street NAKED! (You can purchase the album from online retailers including: Google Play, ITunes and Amazon, as well as your local HMV store)

Earlier this month we got the chance to chat with the lovely Connor from Kingsland Road to get to know the band a little better and see what they have planned for the future.

This interview has plenty of laughs, Tour Gossip, The Queen and King Con… you heard us right! Check it out and let us know what you think.

– Brumotions: Hello

Connor:I’m in the gym at the minute so I’m just going to go find somewhere quiet…two seconds… alright I’m somewhere, I’m cool.

– Brumotions: So for those who don’t know you guys, what makes Kingsland Road, Kingsland Road?

Connor: I don’t think there’s anything that defines us. I don’t know how to answer that one… we’re always late, not for important things obviously, we are weirdo’s, which is one of the main ones and everybody has beards … apart for me…. I don’t think there are any other boybands with beards.

– Brumotions: …Actually no they don’t do they.

Connor:I think they like having beards because it makes them feel like they’re in a man band rather than a boyband… I’m comfortable not having a beard.

– Brumotions: If you could describe your sound in three words what would they be?

Connor:Weird, Funky, Pop… I don’t know.

– Brumotions: So your debut album is coming out March 15th, how does it feel?

Connor: It’s really weird, the official statement that I said myself was that if someone had said to us two years ago, when we were first starting that we would have an album we’d slap em in the face and laugh at them.

I don’t think that we ever realised that it would happen and now that it has and its full of our own songs that we have written ourselves and spent a lot of time on, it feels a lot better so it’s cool.

– Brumotions: So at the moment is it still very surreal?

Connor:Yeah, still very, very surreal because obviously we started out just to gig and write music and we didn’t realise eventually we’d have all of the songs we’ve written on an album, on iTunes. Everything that’s happened in the past couple of years has been unbelievable really and we have kinda surpassed our own expectations and it keeps happening which is amazing, we couldn’t be happier at the minute.

– Brumotions: What can we expect from the album and which track is your personal favourite?

Connor: We are proud of all of the tracks as we wrote them all which I think is quite rare nowadays that every album that is released is written purely yourself which is the case of ours, every song we wrote, drawing from different things and stuff that happened to us. All the lads would have a different favourite, mines probably ‘Freedom’, it’s one of the first songs we wrote when we came from The X Factor and I just like it, I feel a connection with it.

I think every track is different that’s the thing, we listened through the other day together and every track is just really different, we didn’t plan just to go into the studio and write different sounding tracks, it kinda just happened and its really cool and organic, normally albums have 1 sound throughout and ours kind of has different sounds which is cool .

– Brumotions: We are really looking forward to it.

Connor:I’m glad.

– Brumotions: So you’ve also got a tour coming up soon can you give us any spoilers?

Connor:No spoilers, I know there’s one very exciting thing happening in London, which we are working on at the minute, I can’t give too much away but we’ve been practising and its awesome … it’s just going to be a really cool tour. It’s the tour before we head to America so we want to give the UK a massive musical hug and kiss before we head off out there for a bit and then obviously come back but it’s going to be amazing. We are very excited to tour and we love touring, that’s where we like being the most, on stage, so we are excited to see all of our fans from around the UK.

– Brumotions: What are your favourite tracks to play live?

Connor:Some of them we haven’t played live yet off the album but my favourite to play live … I don’t know I just love performing live all the time. I know the rest of the lads love performing ‘Shoreline’, I know like Josh and Thomps they like ‘Shoreline’ live I like ‘Walk Away’ which is one of my favourites, I just love how rocky it is and ‘He’s Got It Coming’ which is on the album, which we performed on our last tour but we have revamped it a bit there’s a new tune to it and there might be a little rap to it … who knows… there’s a little exclusive for you guys don’t tell anybody.

– Brumotions: Can you give us some gossip on what it’s like to tour with you guys are you all work and no party?

Connor:Its smelly… well not THAT smelly, its tiring and you know what, we are party animals sometimes but when they’re tired we do NOT party. I think the last tour we didn’t really go out, it was the same time as our EP and our single launch so we were shooting from Glasgow to London to do Lorraine and it was a bit mental so we didn’t actually have time to go out and party, we had a party on our last night, which was when we released our EP and we were in the club at like one o’clock at night and it went live and we were at number two in the charts on iTunes so we were buzzing and we got absolutely smashed, it was amazing. Yeah we do like to party but at the same time we are serious about music and performing so we don’t like to get so messed up that we can’t sing and perform as that’s the main thing we like doing.

– Brumotions: So is partying crossed off your list for this tour too then?

Connor:Yeah, I think it is actually, especially in America as well, it is very cramped as well, the last tour we had we were in a car as our tour van broke down, so we were in a 5 seater car and we were so rammed, it was horrible.

– Brumotions: Speaking of tour and live shows have you ever asked for anything ridiculous on a tour rider?

Connor:NO, aha we’re alright actually with our riders we only ask for like beer and sandwiches oh and towels and that’s it cause we get really sweaty. The other lads like to have a beer before they go on and I just get hungry so I like sandwiches before I go on that’s it, that’s all we ask for.

– Brumotions: You should start asking for outrageous stuff.

Connor:We’ve been to gigs before where all the riders have been laid out on a table for the artists and we had the smallest by far, we’ve never got used to that so we’ve never took the mick out of it, it’s just the simple things that we need.

– Brumotions: This is a question we ask everyone we interview, if you were to take the queen on a date where would you take her and why?

Connor:I reckon I’d take her to Buckingham Palace because I don’t think she’s ever been there; I don’t think she lives there does she?

– Brumotions: I think she lives there sometimes…

Connor: It would be cool to take her somewhere like Buckingham palace where she SUPPOSEDLY lives but…. Surely she doesn’t live there, with everybody watching her all the time. I’d take her on a tour of London as I think she’d appreciate that, as I’m sure she never gets to see the proper dingy parts, I’d take her to Soho.

– Brumotions: What about the London Eye?

Connor:Yeah exactly, and take her on the tube and stuff as I think she’s been deprived of that, then we’d go to McDonalds and have like a Big Mac as I bet she’s never had one.

– Brumotions: Would you pay?

Connor:Yeah, I suppose, and then we’d head to the cinema or something, but we wouldn’t go in the deluxe seats, we’d go in the proper rubbish seats and give her the experience of living like us… she’d love that, it’s like a Romcom where a rich girl goes out with a poor kid and he romances her with all the poor things he could do, I think I’d win her over and I’d be the future king if that happened.

– Brumotions: King Con, it’s got a bit of a ring to it hasn’t it.

– Connor:Exactly, King Con.

#Klanders, keep your eyes open for PART TWO which will be posted later this week!

It has even more laughs , Josh as a lifeguard, Cats and YOUR fan questions!

Kingsland Road’s debut album ‘We Are The Young’ is out NOW and can be purchased online on ITunes OR at your local HMV.

The band are also currently on tour – Tickets can be purchased at: http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/kingsland-road-tickets

American pop sensations, Before You Exit and The Voice superstar, Christina Grimmie are set to embark on a joint headline tour in the UK this February, stopping off at the Birmingham O2 Academy on Saturday 21st.

Before You Exit are made up of Brothers Connor, Riley and Toby McDonough who have been performing pop hits since 2009 and after gaining a dedicated fanbase in the US, the trio are now heading to the UK for the first time.

Their latest release ‘Dangerous’ is pure pop at its finest and is dangerously catchy (see what we did there). The band have also toured and written with fellow Brumotions’ favourites, Alex Gaskarth and Olly Murs!

Before You Exit will also be joined by Youtube phenomenon and The Voice finalist, Christina Grimmie who has seen the backing from the likes of Adam Levine (Maroon 5) and Lil Wayne – This past year also saw the release of her latest single ‘Must Be Love’, which is an amazing pop track.

This tour has been eagerly awaited by our Brumoters and it is a show not to be missed.

Full dates are as follows:

Tuesday 17th – Brighton – Concorde 2

Wednesday 18th – London – O2 Academy Islington

Thursday 19th – Bristol – Thekla

Saturday 21st – Birmingham – O2 Academy 2

Sunday 22nd – Manchester – Club Academy

Monday 23rd – Newcastle – O2 Academy 2

Tuesday 24th – Glasgow – Garage

Tickets can also be purchased NOW from – kililive.com

Make sure to check out both artists below and let us know what you think:

English rock favourites You Me At Six are teaming up with American pop punk mega stars All Time Low for a co-headlining UK arena tour later this year.

The two rock giants will play 5 UK venues in February, starting in Cardiff on the 9th and ending at London’s O2 Arena on the 14th, with the Birmingham show slotted in between on the 10th, at the newly named Genting Arena.

Meaning it’s exactly one month away!

This tour is highly anticipated as one of the most exciting tours of 2015 and tickets are on sale NOW, from most reputable ticket sellers!

We Brumoters LOVE to predict the future for music hits and today we’ll be focusing on what’s going to be hot in 2015!

From solo acts to bands, below are some artists that we believe that might just be lucky next year.

Ollie Marland

For years Ollie Marland has been on the Unsigned Scene. However, in 2014 he signed with Crown Talent and Media Group with the likes of Ellie Goulding and Jessie J in their arsenal.

Ollie is set to break hundreds of girls’ hearts, but will 2015 be his year? We think so!

Nick Jonas

OMG we’re dating a Jonas Brother… It’s sooooo hot

We Wish!

Those days are over though for youngest brother Nick Jonas, who is pursuing a much more mature and modern style of music and let’s just say it’s something special.

We can’t wait for the release of his solo album and to see if he will be bringing his music live to the UK in 2015.

Please Nick!

Kingsland Road

We have covered Kingsland Road many times throughout 2014 and we feel that 2015 will be their year to finally shine to the masses.

They are now a four piece – Booo! – and are set to release their brand, spanking new debut album with a tour across the UK AND the US – Yayyyy!

We are looking forward to what’s coming next for these guys.

Lawson

We pride ourselves on always being on the lookout for top quality musicians and when we heard Lawson four years ago, we knew they were on to something good.

2015 is set to see Lawson release a brand new album, which if their last album Chapman Square is anything to go by, we can’t wait, and especially as in the land of Lawson this means a tour.

Fifth Harmony

After taking the US by storm with their powerful, pro-female image and a strikingly amazing UK debut on this year’s X Factor, we wouldn’t be surprised if Fifth Harmony rocket up the UK charts in 2015, rivalling Little Mix for the top spot on the girl band front.

Hollywood Ending

Hollywood Ending are those Punk A$$ Kids that our Mama’s warned us about, they are infections, fun and that little bit naughty… but we LOVE them.

We definitely think they are some of the brightest young talents and are worth checking out as we are predicting big things to come from this four piece.

Stereo Kicks

After leaving this year’s X Factor, we feel that Stereo Kicks have great potential on the Boyband front, an 8 piece hasn’t been successfully formed before and we are intrigued as to what is next to come from their original music in 2015.

Will they stay together or will the lads go back to being solo?

James Bay

James Bay is an up and coming talent with a great voice and obvious promise to make it in the big leagues of the music industry.

In 2015, Bay is embarking on a UK tour and we personally can’t wait to hear what’s coming next.

Nathan Sykes

After the disbanding of one of our favourite Boybands- The Wanted, earlier this year, which brought many tears from fans and us Brumoters alike, Nathan Sykes is set to make a comeback.

In 2015, the baby faced crooner, is set to release his debut solo material and its safe to say if its anything like his collaboration with Pop princess Ariana Grande, we are excited! Sykes will definitely be one of the most wanted in 2015.

So there you have it!

Here at Brumotions we love to hear from you, let us know if you agree or if there are any other artists you think we should be featuring.

On November 15th, EofE returned to Birmingham for their very own headline tour, much to the delight of their dedicated fans, most of which waited over 8 hours to see the lads perform.

The Black Country based band came to perform a sold-out show in Birmingham as part of their Unleashed Tour, which comes after the lads supported McBusted and The Vamps only month before.

The group, consisting of Luke, Nicky, Tom, Reece and last, but certainly not least Dan (Left to Right), entertained the highly dedicated group of fans in the sold-out, packed venue with a range of original and cover tracks, including ‘If Only Your Boyfriend Knew’ and Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’.

However, before the young pop rocks graced the stage with their incredible performance and addicting stage presence, Of Kings and Captains, The Fuse and McFly’s Danny Jones’ sister VIX, all of which wowed the ecstatic crowd with their support sets.

The venue became completely deafening when the lads finally emerged on stage, kicking off with their debut single Lust, which reached number eight in the UK rock singles chart.

The lads energetic set featured a number of incredible tracks, all of which seemed to be fan favourites, judging by the crowds reactions as they erupted into cheers at the beginning of each track and proceeded to scream the lyrics back to the boys throughout.

The incredibly talented band made sure that the crowd were thoroughly entertained with a short rendition of Fall Out Boy’s ‘Sugar, we’re goin’ down’ straight after their lively performance of their own track ‘Kiss me like you mean it’ and a number of other tracks!

EofE rounded off their amazing performance with their newest release ‘Bridges’, which is available to download for free on the bands website – So make sure you check that out and download it while you can!

We definitely recommend going to see the EofE lads live as they have a bright future ahead of them, with a possible debut album on the way and an already impressive arsenal of tracks; no doubt it’ll be an incredible night much like this one!

So yesterday, you were all able to see PART 1 of our hilarious interview with The Maine’s bassist Garrett Nickelsen and lead guitarist Jared Monaco. But due to a long interview, you’re all able to check out the rest of our funny chat with the lads in PART 2 below!

– Have you ever asked for something ridiculous on your tour rider?

Jared: In the states, when we were doing a radio campaign for a little while – each time when you go to a radio station, you have a different rider than you would for most of your shows – and we decided to make it as ridiculous as we could.Garrett: I don’t remember exactly… Oh, it was something like one and a half cigarettes.Jared: Yeah, one and a half cigarettes, a baby-sized business suit and a collection of nice things.

– Did you get them?

Jared: Yeah! I mean they didn’t get us the baby-sized business suit, but they gave us a box full of stuff – so it had movies in it and candy, it was literally a box of nice things.Garrett: Did we ever get the cigarettes?Jared: I think we did, (laughing) the second one was literally broken in half.

– So you’re making new music soon, what can we expect or are you keeping it close to heart?

Garrett:No, I mean, there’s going to be guitars, there’s going to be some drums, I’ll probably play some bass. John will sing and there will be a record.Jared:We’ve been working on stuff a while, I mean we’ve been writing and we now have a lot of material ready. I can definitely say that it’s not going to be a dark and more sombre rock record like the last one, it will be… well I don’t know yet, I don’t want to say anything yet, but we do have a lot of stuff written and we’re going to possibly write some more.Garrett:I think it’s not going to be what people expect, which is a good thing.

– Any idea of when we can expect it?

Garrett: (laughing) December… twenty, not then. No… not until next year.Jared:Unless… I don’t know, we could die. We hope not!Garrett: That could happen! Or we could get in the studio and be like “F*ck! How do you work this stuff?”Jared:And never get anything done, but yeah, I think we’re shooting for earlier next year but we don’t know yet, we need to record first.

– Is there any advice or motto that you live by?

Garrett: Make sure you go to bed.Jared: Okay.Garrett: What was that one now…Jared: Don’t listen to anybody… I like that.Garrett:Uhhh… Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re doing it wrong cause you’re not, say “f*ck that”…Jared:I’m doing…Garrett:What’s the quote? Scratch that! Go the bed, that’s the one.

– If you could be any animal, which animal would you be?

Garrett:Duck-billed Platypus.Jared: I’d be a T-Rex.Garrett:That’s a dinosaur!Jared:It’s an animal still!

– But you’d be extinct?

Jared:Yeah, but at least I’d be sleeping peacefully.Garrett:No, you’d be oil.Jared:I’d be oil? Oh… okay, I pick… a woolly mammoth, wait they’re extinct too…Garrett:You should have gone to the museum! There were tons of animals!Jared:Okay, well I want to fly so I’d be an eagle.

– If you were to take the Queen on a date, where would you take her?

Garrett:In-n-Out.Jared:I’d take her to a Marilyn Manson show.Garrett:Oh… F*ck yeah! I’d take her to a Marilyn Manson show.

– Watch her in the mosh-pit?

Jared:Yeah and I’d help lift her to go crowd surfing!Garrett:I’d take her to a haunted house and then she’ll hold on to me!Jared:You’re not supposed to scare the Queen though!Garrett:I don’t care!

– If you could be any instrument, which would you be and why?

Garrett:Tuba!Jared:That would be awesome.Garrett:Cause nobody wants to play Tuba.Jared:But then you’d have everybody’s mouth on you all the time.Garrett:(laughing) sounds good!Jared:(laughing) I would be… a saxophone.Garrett:Sexy Sax!Jared:Yeah!Garrett:F*ck yeah!

So there you have it!

The Maine are definitely one’s to look out for next year, with a potential new album on the horizon!

We wish them all the best and can’t wait to see what they come up with next!

They’re a group of highly talented lads, with incredible tracks within their arsenal!

Don’t forget to follow the lads on Twitter and keep an eye out for our ‘OR’ game, which will be available to read later today!